Oracle will keep flagship Sun server and OS products

With its deal of Sun Microsystems Inc. finally official, Oracle Corp. unveiled its strategic road map for the acquisition at a launch event Wednesday, promising to boost investments in Sun’s UltraSparc, Java, and Solaris product lines.

While just getting to this road map event has been a long process for Oracle — which saw its US $7.4-billion deal slowed down by the European Commission last November — the delayed transaction has given the company more time to plan how exactly it will integrate the former hardware giant, said Oracle president Charles Phillips.

The plan for Phillips is quite simple: Oracle will keep the Sun brand name and continue to pump money and resources into its newly acquired UltraSparc, Solaris, Java-powered product lines.

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